Braehead Farm
It's well known that before the Braehead Shopping Centre was built, the site was occupied in part and most recently by a power station. Less well documented is that to the east of the power station site stood Braehead Farm. This was just off of what was referred to as Renfrew Road in the 1890s and at that time there was an additional dwelling place referred to as The Lodge. Maps from this amazing resource (click here) provided by the National Library of Scotland, photos from Britain from Above (click here). It can be seen in this map from 1895: The river runs from bottom right to top left. The earliest industrial development around Scotstoun is shown on the right. Braehead Farm and the Lodge are centre left of the map. By 1909, industrial development was eating into the farm lands. The Lodge still stands on Renfrew Road but the new geography is in the shape of railway lines linking industrial sites to the main towns in the area: The Lodge was now cut off from the farm except by